LEAKED: A preview of the coming redesign of the Financial Times website

The Financial Times is redesigning its website, and a source sent us the below screengrab of one of the new looks the paper is considering. We don't know whether this will be the final version. An FT spokesperson tells us, "the image you have is not the design, but simply a wireframe that is changing daily and will look very different before long."

Both The Guardian and Bloomberg recently redesigned their websites, and each went with a more horizontal look. Traditionally news sites are dominated by one central column of stories, encouraging readers to scroll vertically downward. The FT design (and those from The Guardian and Bloomberg) both feature "three-across" layouts in which readers are directed to look horizontally across the page as well as vertically, with further horizontal groupings of stories by topic. This look became popular following the rise of Pinterest, which pioneered the modern non-vertical layout.

Here is the new look at the FT; below that is a screengrab from the current design: